Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 28, 2022

Guineapig Cricket or Jiminy Pigette!

whatever you say, cricket

Just go to sleep whenever you have to!

Neither nocturnal, nor diurnal. They sleep anytime they want, night or day.

Yuck. Don’t let Petey see the big bug.

Is Mr Danders about to get his dander up?

I don’t know how I missed this. Mr Danders has always looked strange to me, but today, what I see is a dog’s head, like a beagle with tiny little ears. No body.

Poor Mr. Danders. What did he do to deserve this? A guinea pig with lofty dreams living the petting zoo life. Oh, the Humanity! (Guinea Piganity?)

Mister Danders needs a way bigger habitat, while letting him run loose in their house could blur his status from pet to vermin, it is abuse to keep an animal of that intelligence and sophistication cooped up that way, such is the nature of anthropomorphism.

So can the Otterloops hear Danders and the cricket speak? What level of anthropomorphism does this strip practice? And can Miss Bliss and the other students hear and understand him? Could Petey’s friends like Andre Chang, Ernesto DeLocuna and Viola DeAmour hear and understand Mister Danders if they were visiting, Or Loris Lothrop?

Awkward new friends. Danders is top-heavy (huge muzzle!); while the cricket (?) professes its forelegs are merely ornamental!

How are you guys gonna play cards, anyway?

Is that you, Chester?